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Friday, August 06, 2010

Food: Jack Allen's Kitchen

If you are looking for an excellent date place, Jack Allen's is a hot spot. It's rustic elegance makes it a perfect Texas experience. Sitting under the covered patio was quite comfortable, even in July. The service was befitting the atmosphere of laid back hospitality. All around, it was exquisite.

Now, what you really want to know. What did I eat?

Chicken Nachitos Slow roasted chicken, black beans, American cheese, cotija cheese and house pickled jalapeno. The black beans and cotija cheese on these made me melt.

13 Spiced Chicken Pasta Red pepper linguini, spinach linguini, fresh jalapenos, chipotle cream and cotija cheese. The pasta was perfectly spiced and the raw jalapenos were divine. Dive in if you like a little spice.

Lastly, I had a chocolate mousse topped with ganache and garnished with a slim praline. It would be worth going for all on it's own. Fabulous.

Find out more about Stephanie

In 2008, my husband and I sold our quaint house in the white picket fence suburbs and bought a one hundred year old, three story Antebellum style mansion in a run down area that needed to be restored. The house, while being our home, is used to offer free respite to people needing to be refreshed in their love for Jesus. We focus mainly on pastors, missionaries, and alcoholics. We like to think of ourselves as the L'Abri of the South. Beyond that, I am the wife of a worship pastor, a homeschool mom, and a huge enthusiast of culinary exploits and literature. I am learning God's grace through the spirit of hospitality.